While in California I had the chance to look at a LOT of Navions, and
the one back in Kankakee started to look pretty good. Called the guy,
made an offer, and became an airplane owner (again). Keep in mind I had
seen this bird once for a total of maybe an hour. Never ran it, never
flew it, never saw the logs. It just felt right.
Four years later it's still right.

I bought my 182 sight unseen, except that I did see a few pics on the
dealers website. A previous prospective buyer had a prebuy done and
then couldn't come to terms with the dealer. The dealer gave me the
name of the mechanic that did that prebuy. He told me what he found,
sounded good so I sent the dealer $1000 until I could get there to pick
it up. When I went to pick it up the dealer told me he could have sold
it 5 more times that day alone that I originally called. I had no way
of knowing if that was true at the time but I don't doubt it now.